Improvement in flower-pots



UNITED STATES PrrirENT OFFICE.'

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iMPRovEMENT in FLOWER-POTS.

h'pecilicalion Vorming parl ol' Leiters Iatrni; No, :MLS i9, thin-l January l?, VLSG),

To all '1r/wm f muy rom'rrt.-

lle it known :hat l, .lortu lin-nm", ol' lm v-l ton, in the county ol" Montgomery and State ol' Ohio, have invented a new7 usoi'ul, and inrproved loty and ,Protector l'or Plante; and l do hereby declare that the frame is doserrilnul and represented inthe followingl specileaiion and drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art,- io malte and une my invention, twill proceed to derrcrilie' The nature ol' my invention consists in the ctnnhination ol' a pot with an open holtoin7 providedwith' a llang'e onV the insidensnd a looe removable bottoni to 'lil the earth from the pot7 and a wire screen fitted tothe pol, so :is to protect the yonnev plant, as will he hertinatter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Aie a pot, mand ot' burned clay, Stone, or other earthen materials in the form shown in the drawingsthat is, itisl made conical, larger at the top than the bottom7 no that the earth will come outl readily when the plant started in it is to beset, inthe ground. This pot. has a narrow rim, 13, around it's lowerI edge onfthe inside, to hold the loose removable bottoni i, which is laid in on the rini ,il 'hetero the poty is ililled with earth in which the seed irr'to oe planted, or the plant set which is to grew in the pot.

lily improved pot iS designedand admirably adapted to the wants ot' niarketgardeners, as

they can plant the seeds ot' vegetables in these pots andgivethem an early start in-a hot-house,.

and7 when the sea-son h as advanced so that. they will grow in the open air7 transplant them into the pot' at the sametiinewith' the thnnih and middle lingers, eo as to lil't the pot from the earth containing.; the roots otrthe plant, and then -plaeo the ingers across the loose bot-tom end hold it. against; the ball ol' earth around the roots, and' turn the plant up, and place it in the hole previtntsl)1 prepared t'or it in the ground. lhen pull` the loose bottom out, from nnd'errit and level and prees the earth properly around the plant. Alter the plant; is seb in the open grt-mnd Il t'urn the pot bottom upward and place it over the plant: to .protect it from the lan-ningr leen i'or a lew days, and press the edge ol" the pot. intoV the ground a little way,

so as to protectthe plant l'rom surface-worms,

and appl)F a wiresereen', l), to the upper end ol" thepot. to protect the plantJ from bugs, which wire Screen lessees the loree ofthe sun on the plant; while it.r allows ot a tree circulation of air, whioh is So necessariY for the young' plant in order to produce avgorons growth, and prepfn'eit; i'or the removal ot' the screen and pol. (Bluescreen l) is made ot' wire woven and pressed or hanunered into a hernispherieal term, and a strip ot' sheet metal Vfitted to tho pot is soldered to ithl edge, so that it can be readily applied to or removed from thepot. The sereens may he made ol galvanized wire,

or dipped into hoty gas-tar, or they may be painted or rarnishetl to prevent;- them lroni rusting.

Il v using' the pots and sereensto protect the young plants alter they are set in the ground the lgardener may Set his plants in the ground mn'ch earlier in the season than he could safely do `without them, l'or it the weather is so cold that he :uiprehonds a tirosta pie'oeot paper may be laid over the-opening in the pot and the loose bottoni laid on it,`or the wire screenv put, ontohold the paper .Cover in its place,

l which will he snllieienb toproteet; the plant l from a pretty hard frost, one thatwould destroy the exposed parts of the plants were it not't'or the protection ol" the pot..

From vthe experience I have had with .these A t\"o., three weeks earlier, than hv the commen mode ot starting earl)i .egetahlee heretofore praotioed. y 4 i M5 innn'oret'i pots mab he made ol' niet-al or such other materiale as may he preferred, ardthey' may be made either round, square, or in The combination of the pot. A, flange B, and suoli form as nmy be desirable, and of suoli l reinomble'bottom C,eit-lierwitl1orwitliontthe sizes as `lvill adapt; themto tlxe plants for which screen' D, for the purposes set forth, substanthey are to be used. tizxlly as described.

l believe l have described and represented T T 1 my improved pot :ind screen for plants so as JOHB H 131A' to enable en y person skilled in the alfttomnke Witnesses: and use them. `I will now state what I desire GEO, OWEN, to secure by Letters Patent, to wit: i C'. lV. GRIFFITH, ,Y 

